Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police (apnews.com)
Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived....
Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions (apnews.com)
Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable....
Alabama lawmakers advance bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians (apnews.com)
Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted under the state’s obscenity law for providing “harmful” materials to minors, the latest in a wave of bills in Republican-led states targeting library content and decisions....
Oregon's Sports Bra, a pub for women's sports fans, plans national expansion as interest booms (apnews.com)
The Sports Bra is a pub where women’s sports are celebrated — and the only thing on TV....
Tornadoes collapse buildings and level homes in Nebraska and Iowa (apnews.com)
Tornadoes wreaked havoc Friday in the Midwest, causing a building to collapse with dozens of people inside and destroying and damaging hundreds of homes, many around Omaha, Nebraska....
17 states challenge federal rules entitling workers to accommodations for abortion (apnews.com)
Republican attorneys general from 17 states filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging new federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions, calling the rules an illegal interpretation of a 2022 federal law....
Students at prestigious Paris university occupy campus building in pro-Palestinian protest (apnews.com)
Antiwar protesters' calls for divestment at universities put spotlight on how endowments are managed (apnews.com)
“Divest from death” read the bubble letters written in chalk on the sidewalk on Tuesday outside of The New School in New York City....
USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow (apnews.com)
Body-cam footage shows police left an Ohio man handcuffed and facedown on a bar floor before he died (apnews.com)
New York prosecutors in Trump's hush money trial say former president continues to violate gag order (apnews.com)
Prosecutors said Thursday that Donald Trump again violated a gag order in his hush money trial, as the criminal case resumed on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court weighed whether he should be immune from prosecution for actions taken during his time as president....
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean (apnews.com)
Ariel Henry resigns as prime minister of Haiti, paving the way for a new government to take power (apnews.com)
Another ex-State Department official alleges Israeli military gets 'special treatment' on abuses (apnews.com)
A former senior U.S. official who until recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by foreign militaries receiving American military assistance said Wednesday that he repeatedly observed Israel receiving “special treatment” from U.S. officials when it came to scrutiny of allegations of Israeli military abuses of...
Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations (apnews.com)
This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers....
US expected to provide $6 billion to fund long-term weapons contracts for Ukraine, officials say (apnews.com)
The U.S. is expected to announce Friday that it will provide about $6 billion in long-term military aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said, adding that it will include much sought after munitions for Patriot air defense systems....
Migrants indicted in Texas over alleged border breach after judge dismissed charges (apnews.com)
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New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial (apnews.com)
Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established (apnews.com)
A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.
Chinese student given 9-month prison sentence for harassing person posting democracy leaflets (apnews.com)
A former Berklee College of Music student from China was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in the Asian country, authorities said....
Ukraine pulls US-provided Abrams tanks from the front lines over Russian drone threats (apnews.com)
Here's why Harvey Weinstein's New York rape conviction was tossed and what happens next (apnews.com)
Tough new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down (apnews.com)
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency....
New California rule aims to limit health care cost increases to 3% annually (apnews.com)
Doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies in California will be limited to annual price increases of 3% starting in 2029 under a new rule state regulators approved Wednesday in the latest attempt to corral the ever-increasing costs of medical care in the United States....
US births fell last year, marking an end to the late pandemic rebound, experts say (apnews.com)
U.S. births fell last year, resuming a long national slide....
